Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently, when Milan's Maggioni pharmaceutical company learned that a drug counterfeit ring was using its label to sell fake tranquilizers, cortisone and heart tonics (distilled water for liquids, common starch for pills), the call went up for Tom and his 31-man "Mercury" detective agency. Going after a gang that he called "hairy-gutted animals-worse than Murder Inc.," Tom recorded conversations with suspects, using a tiny microphone worn like a wristwatch, snapped telephoto pictures with cameras guyed on field glasses, rigged up a periscope on the radio aerial of his car to enable him to peek inside...
...quite meet TV specifications. Before he knew what had happened, Tommaso Ponzi, private eye, found himself charged with impersonating an officer, violation of domicile, restraint of person and arbitrary arrest. Tom's suspects, who had admitted to being part of an estimated $500,000-a-year ring, walked out of the station free men-because the police themselves had not caught them red-handed as the law requires...
...Fettuccine," who-under a spotlight, with house lights dark and violins softly playing-mixed butter into the long noodles with a gold fork and spoon given to him by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, attracted food connoisseurs from all sides of the news, among them Hermann Göring, Dwight Eisenhower, Grace Kelly, Harry Truman, Heinrich Himmler, Princess Soraya, King Farouk, Pierre Laval; of a heart attack; in Rome. "There's a little trattoria on the Via della Scrofa where you get the best fettuccine in the world," says Sinclair Lewis Socialite Lucille McKelvey, but the remark passes several...
...words from President Eisenhower had the ring of a command. "They must do it, and they must do it in such a way that the price is not compelled to go up." Rarely does the President use such strong words in matters of labor-management relations, but rarely are strong words more necessary...
...already been set down by others, some of it by Author Scott himself in God Is My Co-Pilot (TIME, Aug. 9, 1943). But Scott's present accounts of battles in the China air, of maddening service red tape and of Chennault's leadership have the ring of truth, loyalty and experience. Generals in higher places treating Chennault as they did may have had reasons Fighter Scott never knew about. What he shows in Flying Tiger is an advantage few of them enjoyed: the knowledge that comes only to the man on the trigger...